Illustration by Lea Kron
Zev Rosenberg, age 59
Father of 4, grandfather of 2
(almost empty-nester)
Master HVAC technician, personal trainer, international marathoner, and IDF veteran
Currently living in Edison, NJ
I love the Shabbos meals my wife prepares as much as she loves to prepare them. She makes delicious food, and it’s always interesting. Baked goods, salads, soups, meat, side dishes — she’s got it all going on. And fortunately we live in a community where people pull together to help with meals for those who are in difficult times, Rachmana litzlan, so she does that too.
But there are weeks that, for whatever reason, I have to step up to the plate (dad joke). Right now, we’re in the middle of going through 20 years’ worth of stuff in preparation for making aliyah, so any excuse to give my house has been literally torn apart one way or another, we haven’t had much company; it was just the two of us at the meals.
My cooking influences are eclectic — my mother and grandmother, Boy Scouts, and I even picked up some pro game working in a restaurant. I had my share of duty in the mitbach in the army. I also lived on my own from age 17 to age 30, and with few exceptions I was responsible for feeding myself and certainly couldn’t afford to eat out very often. I would say I have more of a cooking system than style.
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